The president of the Engagés (ex-CDH) and mayor of Namur returns, at the microphone of DH Radio, to all the demands made by the different parties during the speeches on May 1, which took place in the four corners of Wallonia.
Maxime Prévot is not convinced by the claims of the parties. He also shot them. “I think that in this hubbub of demands that often only last a day, we beat the drums hard, but following that it often goes pshit. May 1st is used to share a grilled sausage with the militants who are already convinced, but it’s often an escalation of little phrases intended to knock out the left or the right. While these people who rail once morest each other for a day work together and have to find solutions together and these are struggling to hatch“, he comments.
But if only one of the measures claimed by the right or left parties had to be singled out, Maxime Prévot would opt for intensive work through the tax lever “in order to help low-wage workers and the middle class. We have a lot of aid provided and it is legitimate for those who have fewer resources. But we too often forget that beyond the people who are at the CPAS, unemployed, sick, there are also workers who work and who struggle to make ends meet. Some are forced to go on sick leave because they are no longer able to go to work because of their gas fill-ups which sometimes exceed their mortgage”.
To help the middle class, the mayor of Namur would like to see less talk and more results. “At this stage, I see a government that takes longer to tear itself apart, to slap each other in the face, to engage in perpetual controversy. How do you expect us to avoid, tomorrow, a wave of extreme parties and populists if the traditional parties do not know how to leave this field of emotion for that of action?he asks.
The president of the Engaged also reacted to this rumor which has grown considerably, according to which the PS and Ecolo would like to eject the MR from the French-speaking majority (in Wallonia and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation). “We are not surprised to see certain parties want to release others when we see the prevailing climate. But it is not healthy. As far as we are concerned, we are not interested in being the wheel of “a coach but we want something concrete. We want results. (…) Today, this movement (Editor’s note: the Committed) has the vocation of being able to assume responsibilities but I am not licking the ground hoping that my phone rings. (…) But I ask the parties in power to stop quarreling in order to be effective. The Engaged will remain at all times, today as in the years to come, a solution force”, says Maxime Prévot.
“I was indignant at the attitude of Georges-Louis Bouchez”
Finally, Maxime Prévot reacted to the controversy over respect for the sanitary cordon, which arose when Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of the MR, debated with Tom Van Grieken, president of Vlaams Belang. “Contrary to certain speeches, I think that the sanitary cordon is fully necessary. Some tell me that we can confront extremist parties by going on TV sets to disembodie their ideas. You will excuse me, but by looking towards Flanders with Belang, or to France with the parties of Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, it is clear that as soon as the Democrats debate with the far right and offer it a window of media coverage to expose its ideas, it is its own (those extremists) who win”he regrets. “Yes, we must keep the sanitary cordon and strengthen it. With my colleagues, I was indignant at the attitude of Georges-Louis Bouchez because following his short sentence flattering the consistency of Eric Zemmour, he will debate 3 minutes on a Flemish TV set to flatter his ego because he aims to be Prime Minister, I find that it was an approach that was neither healthy in relation to this issue of preservation once morest the far right, nor timely in relation to the commitment that had been formulated”.
